Example sentences of "of [v-ing] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This leaves the school in the weak position of reacting to opinion rather than acting as an opinion former . |
| 2 | This , then , is the first stage of reacting to loss : denial — shock that something bad has happened — is our psyche 's way of defending us from experiencing too great a sense of harm too quickly . |
| 3 | My advice to Nationalist MPs is , whether on occasion they support Liberal Democrat or Tory motions on their merits , they should never vote with Labour , as it is a party fundamentally incapable of sticking to principle . |
| 4 | The idea of sticking to sherry sounded so very safe and dull that Penelope naturally chose the Martini . |
| 5 | The event was doubly significant : first , as a sort of dubbing to knighthood , the ritual demonstrated publicly that Charles as a grown man was now able to rule and ready to fight . |
| 6 | The crystal structure presented here suggests that GH5 has a primary mode of binding to DNA based on the similarity with CAP , and the presence of a secondary site that could bind to another duplex of DNA . |
| 7 | Differential strengths of binding to mucus may explain this , particularly since zinc and copper have greater affinity for most polyanionic metal binding substrates than magnesium and calcium . |
| 8 | Most living reptiles and all of the primitive ones lay eggs , and this amniote egg , from which perfectly-formed baby reptiles hatch , marks the complete emancipation from the necessity of returning to water for reproduction . |
| 9 | Those for whom free care might be extended should be only those with a realistic possibility of returning to self care in the community within two years . |
| 10 | They offer adults ways of returning to education , perhaps through the desire for self development and change , or in search of fresh interests and commitments . |
| 11 | The next section will also be very useful earlier , when you are merely thinking of returning to work . |
| 12 | There are now two kinds of household : a minority where the wife does not work , and may have no intention of returning to work , to which the old expectations apply , and a rising majority of households with working wives for which the economics of childbearing have been reversed . |
| 13 | What 's the point of returning to work and allowing someone else to bring up the child ? |
| 14 | I really did n't feel capable of returning to work , but was persuaded to by one of my managers with the promise that I could take things easy . |
| 15 | Well , where disability commences within six months of returning to work after a previous claim due to the same or related causes in which case no deferred period will apply , and so therefore your right answer is B folks . |
| 16 | But the thought of returning to publishing had not seriously entered his head until the spring of 1981 , when his attention suddenly focused on an industrial dispute afflicting Time Out magazine and its proprietor Tony Elliott . |
| 17 | ‘ Now I 've given up all hope ( of returning to Formula One ) . ’ |
| 18 | Prisoners were to be made to perform productive work within the prison in a consistent and regular manner in order that they should acquire rational work habits which they would continue after release instead of returning to crime . |
| 19 | The possibility of returning to football later was then still open . |
| 20 | Joe 's behaviour can also be s\described as mildly odd : his fear of returning to prison shows in his encouragement of the local children to play policeman games , telling them he will put bad boys into his private jail , and a sense of contrition over the faulty aircraft parts means he can not bear having anything the house that ought to be thrown away . |
| 21 | However , if the patient is younger , and would wish to return to work , you should not make any hasty decisions about the patient 's long-term prospects of returning to employment . |
| 22 | Initially he will work for Carr O'Connell Book Marketing , the freelance team which has been carrying the Headline list since his accident , with the aim of returning to Headline full-time in April . |
| 23 | The cut often rapidly reduces tension and brings a sense of returning to reality . |
| 24 | BRITISH hopes of returning to normalcy in negotiations with China over the future of Hong Kong appeared to have been thwarted yesterday as the 14th round of Sino-British talks ended with only limited signs of progress . |
| 25 | Instead of walking to school as we always used to do in the olden days , even if it was a three mile journey , nearly every child of today gets taken there in a car . |
| 26 | ‘ May I still have the pleasure of walking to World 's End with the both of you ? ’ |
| 27 | At such moments the narcissistic dimension of relating to otherness becomes apparent . |
| 28 | However , the writer who most explicitly questions the Western cultural tradition and proclaims the need for an alternative way of relating to reality is Julio Cortázar . |
| 29 | In fact , as he later admitted in court , he had been represented by a lawyer from Newcastle at the time of signing to Virgin : not a music-business lawyer , it was true , but a lawyer none the less . |
| 30 | The question of keeping to convention versus innovating is particularly acute in this kind of example ; and on balance it may be a good idea to reformulate problematic sentences slightly so that they can follow punctuation conventions and be clear at the same time . |